Security Engineer II: Detection, Response & AI Tools

Emploive; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest seeks an experienced Security Engineer to build detection and response improvements, adapt to emerging threats, and protect employees and infrastructure. You will craft alerts, manage logging pipelines, and develop tooling to extend the team’s detection capabilities.

Collaboration across teams and on-call incident response are core parts of the role. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering focus on intrusion detection, incident response, and threat hunting, with scripting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of intrusion detection and incident response with an engineering focus in a modern cloud-first environment.
• Hands-on experience with writing SIEM queries for alerting, response, and threat hunting.
• Experience consuming threat intel and applying it to improve detection capabilities.
• Familiarity with telemetry sources for threat investigations (EDR, Osquery, Firewall logs).

Responsibilities

• Build alerts and automation workflows to detect and respond to threats.
• Manage logging pipelines and onboard new sources to improve detection coverage.
• Develop and maintain internal tooling to expand automation in detection/response.
• Respond to alerts and participate in on-call incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-team partners and hunt for undetected threats.
• Leverage AI to improve speed and quality of outputs.

Skills

Threat hunting

SIEM queries

Python/Go/Ruby

AI-assisted workflows

Incident response

On-call rotation

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

EDR

Osquery

Firewall logs

Job description

Pinterest seeks an experienced Security Engineer to build detection and response improvements, adapt to emerging threats, and protect employees and infrastructure. You will craft alerts, manage logging pipelines, and develop tooling to extend the team’s detection capabilities.

Collaboration across teams and on-call incident response are core parts of the role. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering focus on intrusion detection, incident response, and threat hunting, with scripting